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Why drag around a laptop, if you have monitors everywhere anyway, and I assume you could easily add a full PC too?


Because I am disallowed from accessing company tools and network with my personal devices. This is exceptionally common and has been the policy at every company I ever worked for.


In my case I sometimes work from home and sometimes from the office. The laptop is handy since I can bring it with me and use the same computer at both workstations, both of which have external monitors.


I had a NUC that was even better for this, it fit in a pair of cargo shorts.

Laptop is nicer for coffee shops, though. Lots of things are aided by an external monitor, but not everything requires one.




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